In the hollow divisions of the bamboo is found, in small quantities, a pure white tasteless substance, called tawurshear, [39] which as a medicine is in great request with the Native doctors, who administer it as a sovereign remedy for lowness of spirits, and every disease of the heart, such as palpitations, &c.

The kingdom either directly or indirectly controls most of the Arab media, including Al-Jazeera's principal rival Al Arabiya, but it remains highly vulnerable to the kind of palpitations Al-Jazeera could easily provoke.

Darwin often referred his "palpitations", which might have been an arrhythmia; episodes of precordial pain, however, are not often mentioned and no shortness of breath or fluid retention was ever noted.